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India remained the world’s largest arms importer for the five-year period between 2018-22 even though its arms imports dropped by 11% between 2013–17 and 2018–22, according to the Swedish Think Tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. With an 11% share of total global arms imports, India was the world’s biggest importer of major arms in 2018–22, a position it has …
A San Francisco tech entrepreneur has shared startling scenes of the deserted downtown of her city, with the previously bustling streets void of people and eerily quiet. Tech entrepreneur Michelle Tandler spent the week photographing desolate San Francisco during weekday mornings, in areas that would have been bustling with workers pre-COVID Tandler noted that the normally bustling downtown was eerily …
San Francisco's exodus of rich residents during the COVID-19 pandemic led to biggest drop in household income of any US city, new census data has revealed, as office workers continue to flee the city amid a recent rise in crime and homelessness. San Francisco's exodus of rich residents during the COVID-19 pandemic led to biggest drop in household income of …